More than half of the world’s Mountain gorillas population is resident in Bwindi National Park. There are 320 individuals’ living in troops of 15 and it is the main attraction in the rainforest. However, the forest harbours at least 120 mammal species. This list consists of mainly small mammals such as rodents and bats, but it does include 11 types of primate, including a health population of chimpanzee and substantial numbers of L’Hoest’s, red-tailed and blue monkey, black-white colobus monkey and olive baboon. 6 antelope species are in the park.

A total of 350 bird species is in the park, 23 species endemic to Albert Rift and 14 species only found in this forest among them the African green broadbill, white-tailed blue flycatcher brown necked parrot, white-bellied robin chat and frazer’s eagle owl and many more. Bwindi is a home to 200 butterfly species. Bwindi forest is a mysterious African jungle with dense growth, vines and other vegetation.

The forest is 25000 years old and covers an area of 331sq km and it is shared by the districts of Kanungu, Kabale and Kisoro in the south-western Uganda on the edge of the western rift valley. It has an altitude ranging between 1160m and 2607m above sea level.

  The Park spreads over a series of steep ridges and valleys that form the eastern edge of the Albertine Rift Valley. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park contains the 2-sq-km Mubwindi swamp and a number of smaller swamps. Munyaga River tumbles down the steep slopes south-east, nearby Buhoma, flowing through a series of waterfalls.
Bwindi Safari Uganda

 There are over 163 species of trees, 10 of which occur nowhere else in Uganda and 16 of which show very limited distribution elsewhere in Uganda. The park has an extensive stand of bamboo about 6 sq km and Tropical rainforest.